Ty Montgomery – Noteworthy
RB/KR Ty Montgomery insisted that he did not intentionally disobey coaches’ orders to take a knee on a kickoff during the late stages of the Green Bay Packers’ game against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. Montgomery said he was unsure how close the ball was to the goal line when he elected to the run it out with 2:09 remaining. The 25-year-old Montgomery was two yards deep in the end zone and reached the Packers’ 20 before Ramik Wilson punched the ball out. The Rams ran out the clock to preserve a 29-27 win, leaving Aaron Rodgers on the sideline. “I had a returnable ball,” Montgomery said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “So I made a split-second decision on, I don’t know if this is going to land on the goal line. So I’m not going to take a knee on the goal line, at the half-yard line and take a chance at putting the game in the ref’s hands. Unfortunately, I ended up fumbling the football. I don’t think we’d be having this conversation if I didn’t fumble the football because we know how good our two-minute offense is. But I’ve never been a guy to completely disobey what I’m being told. I think you can ask a lot of guys in our locker room. That’s not what I do. That’s not the type of man I am. That’s not the kind of person I am.”
Ty Montgomery – Important – Transaction
RB Ty Montgomery was traded by the Packers to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for an undisclosed future draft pick, the Ravens announced on Tuesday. Multiple media outlets reported the Packers will receive a 2020 seventh-round pick from the Ravens. Speculation that Montgomery might be traded followed his decision to return a kickoff late in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. With 2:05 left in the game, Montgomery took the kickoff out of the end zone instead of taking a knee for a touchback to take no time off the clock and give the Packers the ball at their 25-yard line. Head coach Mike McCarthy said on Monday that Montgomery had been told to take a touchback if the ball went into the end zone. Montgomery denied he had been given that instruction. Montgomery then fumbled on his return, giving the ball back to the Rams instead of putting the ball in the hands of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.